At the conclusion of our tri-national research project on vowel and consonant quantity in southern German varieties from Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, this workshop addresses eminent issues revolving around the discussions of the (in)stability and typology of quantity contrast(s) in German and other languages. The aim of the workshop is to bring together scholars working on a variety of quantity languages (Germanic, Romance, Finno-Ugric, and others) as well as from theoretical perspectives and with different methodological approaches, ranging from phonological typology to experimental phonetics. Contributions offer, on the one hand, a systematic view on particular language families (Germanic, Romance) and the languages of the world in general, drawing on phonological databases and phonetic corpora; on the other hand, they also report recent empirical insights from production and perception experiments in specific language varieties. A particular focus lies on mechanisms of sound change, both from a larger diachronic perspective and a more sociophonetic approach to linguistic change in progress.
| Time | Speaker (Affiliation) | Preliminary Title |
|---|---|---|
| Thursday, February 1st | ||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Felicitas Kleber (LMU Munich) & Stephan Schmid (University of Zurich) |
Welcome and Introduction |
| Chair: Guido Seiler | ||
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Ian Maddieson (University of New Mexico) | Quantity and syllable structure: Cross-linguistic Patterns |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | B. Richard Page (Pennsylvania State University) | The synchrony and diachrony of vowel and consonant quantity in Germanic languages |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Felicitas Kleber (LMU Munich) | Prosodic change in Central Bavarian and prosodic stability in Swiss German? Evidence from articulatory, acoustic and perceptual data |
| 12:30 – 14:15 | Lunch break | |
| Chair: Volker Dellwo | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Stephan Schmid (University of Zurich) | Vowel and consonant quantity in Zurich German |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Michael Pucher & Lorenz Gutscher (Austrian Research Institute for Artifical Intelligence) | Acoustic Language Embeddings and Phonetic Typology of Austrian German varieties |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Michele Loporcaro (University of Zurich) | Vowel and consonant quantity in Romance languages |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Lorenzo Filipponio (HU Berlin) Davide Garassino (ZHAW) Dalina Dipino (University of Zurich) |
Vowel and consonant quantity in Ligurian dialects |
| Friday, February 2nd | ||
| Chair: Eleanor Chodroff | ||
| 09:00 – 09:45 | Enkeleida Kapia (LMU Munich; Academy of Albanological Sciences, Tirana) & Josiane Riverin-Coutlée (LMU Munich) |
Vowel quantity in Albanian: Dialect change, acquisition and attitudes |
| 09:45 – 10:30 | Václav Jonáš Podlipský (Palacký University Olomouc ) | Czech vowel quantity: the role of vowel duration and spectrum as cues |
| 10:30 – 11:00 | Coffee break | |
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Katalin Mády (Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics) | Consonant and vowel quantity in Hungarian and some aspects of sociophonetic variation |
| 11:45 – 12:30 | Pärtel Lippus (University of Tartu) | Vowel and consonant quantity in Estonian: typological overview and phonetic evidence |
| 12:30 – 14:15 | Lunch break | |
| Chair: Catalina Torres | ||
| 14:15 – 15:00 | Yeongeun Choi (University of Zurich) | Durational correlates of word-initial plosives and the following vowels in Korean |
| 15:00 – 15:45 | Kathleen Jepson (LMU Munich) | Vowel and consonant duration relationships in Australian Indigenous languaguage: The case of Djambarrpuyŋu |
| 15:45 – 16:15 | Coffee break | |
| 16:15 – 17:00 | Ludger Paschen (ZAS Berlin) Matthew Stave (DDL, Université Lumière Lyon 2) Frank Seifart (ZAS Berlin) |
Vowel and consonant length in the DoReCo corpus |
| 17:00 – 17:45 | Final discussion | |
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